AIC

Team

 

Institute for Private Capital

Greg Brown

Research Director, Institute for Private Capital
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler
Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Melissa Waller

Director of Public & Private Partnerships, Kenan Institute of Private Enerprise

Melissa Waller is Director of Public & Private Partnerships at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. In this role, she works to develop partnerships with government entities, industry leaders and academic institutions aligned with the Institute’s mission and those of its affiliated research centers.

Previously Waller served as the former Deputy Treasurer and Chief of Staff for the North Carolina Department of State Treasury, where she successfully oversaw Department strategic planning, operations, and public-policy implementation, along with a staff of more than 400 employees. The North Carolina Retirement Systems, the pension fund for the state, is the tenth largest public pension fund in the United States, with assets in excess of $100 billion.

Waller’s background includes over 20 years of private and public-sector financial industry experience, including 15 years in the banking sector with Wachovia/Wells Fargo. She currently also serves as Executive Program Director for the National Institute of Public Finance within the NAST Foundation and is the President of the AIF Institute.

Waller graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in journalism and mass communication and a concentration in instructional design.

Christian Lundblad

Director, Senior Fellow, Institute for Private Capital
Edward M. O’Herron Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler
Director of Research, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Shawn Munday

Executive Director, Institute for Private Capital
Professor of the Practice of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler

Sarah Franks

Director, Institute for Private Capital

Dorothy Welsh

Events and Program Manager, Institute for Private Capital

David Knowles

Director of Business Development and Finance, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Ashley Brown

Director of Research Services, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Sydney Bannerman

Events Manager, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

 
 

INSTITUTE FOR PRIVATE CAPITAL

The Institute for Private Capital improves public understanding of the role of private capital in the global economy. Academic and industry experts work together to generate new knowledge about private capital markets based on objective academic research.

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